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Connect with Michaela.

I’m always glad to hear from you. Please send me an email.

Other ways to find me:

Instagram for updates and micro blogs.

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My Substack (blog/newsletter)

Michaela is available as a guest writer, podcast guest, keynote or guest speaker, and workshop facilitator. She also offers online grief circles and grief companionship for bereaved parents and parents of medically fragile children.

Potential conversations:

  • Daring to Speak About Death: A Parent’s Perspective on Serious Illness Conversations and how clinicians can meet parents with greater presence and humanity.

  • The Conversation We Fear the Most: What does it mean to stay present with parents in the face of the unthinkable—and to offer honesty, compassion, and connection rather than silence or reassurance?

  • The Long Arc of Grief: What does it mean to find a way forward after the death of a child?

  • Alive Inside: How long-ago griefs, losses, and life experiences can continue to inform how we inhabit ourselves.

  • Companionship Through the Unthinkable: What bereaved parents need from the people around them.

  • Living With Anticipatory Grief: Supporting parents whose children are medically fragile or living with serious illness.

  • When Words Aren’t Enough: Exploring movement, the body, and the places where grief lives beyond language.